John Hannett Articles

As the union representing retail workers across the United Kingdom, Usdaw is extremely concerned at the enterprise bill amendment which would devolve the power to set the hours of Sunday trading for large stores to local authorities. This would lead to a ‘domino...

The Freedom From Fear campaign is one of Usdaw's main campaigns and is incredibly important to the lives of our members. Our members, and all workers, should be free from the fear of violence, threats and abuse while going about their working lives. Our annual Freedom...

Usdaw has raised our objections with the provisions in the trade union bill and is actively supporting today’s Trade Union Congress’ parliamentary lobby. Usdaw rarely organises industrial action and sees such a process as a last resort following a serious breakdown in...

It is extremely disappointing that the government has yet again returned to the question of Sunday trading, particularly after promising before the election they had no plans to relax the law. The government may argue that this proposal is not deregulation, but...